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Guatemala Still Searches for Cristina as Femicide’s Silence Grows Louder 0
- WE ARE, Equality
- July 7, 2026
Fifteen years after Cristina Siekavizza vanished in Guatemala, her family’s plea for anonymous tips cuts through a region where femicide laws exist, bodies disappear, and justice too often arrives late, partial, or not at all for women.
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Rigoberta Menchú Warns Guatemala Justice Turns Peace Into Impunity Again 0
- WE ARE, Fighters
- July 6, 2026
Rigoberta Menchú’s latest warning is not nostalgia from Guatemala’s war years. It is a woman’s indictment of courts captured by impunity, and a regional alarm for Latin American women still fighting violence, erasure and the right to be heard today.
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Mexico Sweeps Subway Sellers Away as World Cup Fever Arrives 0
- WE ARE, Fighters
- June 16, 2026
As Mexico City prepares for the World Cup, women selling candy and beauty goods in the Metro say police raids, camera tracking, and steep fines are turning informal work into a public spectacle of poverty, gender, and power underground today.
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Colombia Confronts Female Genital Mutilation With Law and Moral Patience 0
- Equality, WE ARE
- June 11, 2026
Colombia’s new female genital mutilation law targets a hidden crisis affecting Indigenous girls, choosing prevention over punishment and forcing Latin America to face a difficult truth: protecting children sometimes means confronting harmful traditions without humiliating the communities carrying them forward.
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Colombia May Fail Girls as Female Genital Mutilation Bill Stalls 0
- WE ARE, Equality
- May 26, 2026
Colombia’s pending female genital mutilation bill risks dying before a final Senate debate. These alarming rights groups say Indigenous girls remain exposed while lawmakers delay prevention, community education, and a coordinated national response to a hidden human rights emergency.
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Mothers Hunt Ghosts at Mexico-Guatemala Border While States Look Away 0
- WE ARE, Mothers
- May 14, 2026
In Tapachula, mothers from Ecuador, Honduras, Colombia, and Cuba are turning migration’s invisible graveyard into a public accusation, exposing how disappearances on Mexico’s southern frontier now shape family grief, border policy, and Latin America’s uneasy geopolitical bargain with the north.
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